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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2005
Richard Woolley, Orem, UT (US);
Don T. Saxby, Tooele, UT (US);
Chris Oshima, San Jose, CA (US);
Vadim Klishko, Layton, UT (US);
Richard Woolley, Orem, UT (US);
Don T. Saxby, Tooele, UT (US);
Chris Oshima, San Jose, CA (US);
Vadim Klishko, Layton, UT (US);
Cirque Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A method of using capacitance-sensitive touchpad, wherein the touchpad includes a plurality of zones on a surface thereof, wherein detection of a finger within one of the plurality of zones determines a direction and a speed of scrolling within a window in a graphical user interface, and wherein detection of a finger within one of the plurality of zones determines a direction and a speed of movement of a cursor performing edge motion in the graphical user interface, thus making edge motion and scrolling dependent only upon a detected location of a finger within the plurality of zones, and not dependent upon detecting movement of the finger.